No matter Industry 4.0 or "Made in China 2025", it shows that the current era is pursuing automation control. The global industrial control technology is developing rapidly, and the industrial control industry chain will also have a blowout development, and more funds will flow to this industry in the future. So, how big is the automation market? Through the top ten data, analyze this problem for you.

　　Interpretation of the top ten data of the industrial automation market

　　1. 200 billion industrial robots

　　 Since the beginning of this year, the overall domestic macro-economy has shown a relatively sluggish situation, while the robotics industry still maintains a relatively high degree of prosperity. This can be reflected in many aspects. Taking the China International Robot Exhibition as an example, the lineup of exhibitors has expanded significantly, the models of domestically-made machines are more abundant, and the performance and quality are improving. The grassroots survey revealed that foreign robot companies such as ABB, KUKA, Yaskawa, and FANUC, due to the strong demand in the automotive industry, increased their sales in the first half of the year by more than 20%, basically maintaining the growth rate of last year; In the first half of the year, sales volume increased by more than 100% year-on-year.

General manufacturing demand has accelerated, and there is huge space for service robots: In recent years, domestic robot companies have focused on the development of general manufacturing robot applications, including machine tool loading and unloading (including stamping and forming, etc.), grinding and polishing, spraying, welding, casting, etc., which have been formed A more mature overall application program for robots has been developed, laying a solid foundation for the large-scale application of general manufacturing robots other than automobiles. According to estimates, the domestic industrial robot market is expected to reach a scale of 200 billion in the next five years, and there will be tens of billions of industrial robot companies. Compared with the existing scale, there is huge room for increase. However, in the future, service robots will have a larger market capacity, providing huge valuation space for listed robot companies.

　　 2. Frequency converter 120 billion to 180 billion yuan

　　Inverter is a power control device that uses frequency conversion technology and microelectronics technology to control AC motors by changing the frequency of the motor's working power supply. The frequency converter is mainly composed of rectifier (AC to DC), filtering, inverter (DC to AC), braking unit, drive unit, detection unit and micro-processing unit. The inverter adjusts the voltage and frequency of the output power supply by breaking the internal IGBT, and provides the required power supply voltage according to the actual needs of the motor, thereby achieving the purpose of energy saving and speed regulation. In addition, the inverter has many protection functions. , Such as overcurrent, overvoltage, overload protection and so on. With the continuous improvement of industrial automation, frequency converters have also been widely used.

　　 my country's frequency converter market has maintained a growth rate of 12% to 15% in recent years. Industry insiders predict that the current growth rate of inverter installation capacity (power) in the Chinese market is actually about 20%, and the potential market space is about 120 billion to 180 billion yuan. Last year was a very critical year for the Twelfth Five-Year Development Plan. The government work report put forward high requirements for energy conservation and emission reduction in the industrial and public sectors. At the same time, the inverter industry also ushered in a good opportunity for development. In fact, during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, my country’s investment in environmental protection will reach 3.1 trillion yuan, and the total output value of the energy-saving and environmental protection industry will reach 5.3 trillion yuan. As the main force and pioneer of energy saving and emission reduction, high-voltage inverters will have a huge future. Market demand. At present, the concept of an energy-saving society in China is being actively promoted, and the national government is speeding up the introduction of industrial policies to point out the direction for energy-saving development.

　　3, sensor 120 billion

　　 At present, as the most influential and promising high-tech in the 21st century, smart sensors are attracting great attention from the electronic information circles at home and abroad. The Optoelectronic Industry Development Association (OIDA) predicts that the international market sales of smart sensors will grow at a high rate of 20% per year, and smart sensors will play a more important role in the era of industrial automation. The sensor market will reach 120 billion in 2015, and it will be widely used in countries all over the world. In the future, sensors will have a lot to do in industrial production.

　　According to the WeChat public account's industrial intelligence statistics, by 2015, the overall market size of my country's Internet of Things will reach 750 billion yuan, and the sensor industry will directly benefit from it. In 2010, my country's sensor manufacturing enterprises above designated size (annual sales revenue of more than 5 million yuan) achieved sales revenue of 44.027 billion yuan. According to industry experts, China's sensor market will develop steadily and rapidly from now on. Driven by the substantial growth of the Internet of Things market, China's sensor market is expected to reach more than 120 billion yuan in 2015.

　　4, industrial software 103.746 billion

　　Industrial software refers to software applied in the industrial field, including systems, applications, middleware, embedded, etc. Generally speaking, industrial software is divided into programming languages, system software, application software, and middleware in between. Among them, the system software provides the most basic functions for computer use, but it is not aimed at a specific application field. The application software is just the opposite. Different application software provides different functions according to the user and the field it serves.

　　 my country’s industrial software market is growing rapidly. In 2011, the market size has reached 61.634 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.9%. The market size is expected to reach 103.746 billion yuan in 2015. In the future, as China intensifies its industrial transformation and upgrading during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, and vigorously develops high-end and intelligent equipment industries, the industrial software market will continue to grow, which will also greatly stimulate the development of local industries.

　　 5. Industrial PC 20 billion

At present, domestic industrial computer supply channels mainly come from manufacturers in Taiwan and mainland China. After several years of market warfare, foreign products (such as RADISYS, ROCKWELL, INTEL, etc.) have become Completely withdraw from the domestic market. At present, the domestic IT industry R&D and processing technology strength is continuously improving; all kinds of chips, various devices, and production equipment can be purchased equally in the international market; the portability of software resources can save a lot of manpower and material resources. Under these favorable conditions, some domestic manufacturers have seized the opportunity to rise rapidly, and gradually squeezed foreign brands out of the domestic industrial control market by using local comprehensive competitive advantages. Some companies have established themselves in the domestic industrial control market with an annual asset growth rate of more than 100%, and have successfully entered the international industrial control market.

　　The products and technologies of the industrial control industry are very special and are intermediate products, which provide reliable, embedded and intelligent industrial computers for other industries. With the deepening of social informatization, the key tasks of key industries will rely more and more on industrial computers, and low-cost industrial control automation based on IPC is becoming the mainstream, and the importance of local industrial computer manufacturers is also increasing. Higher and higher. With the rapid development of power, metallurgy, petrochemical, environmental protection, transportation, construction and other industries, from set-top boxes and digital TVs for digital homes to bank teller machines, highway toll systems, gas station management, manufacturing production line control, finance, and government The demand for informatization in industries such as national defense and defense continues to increase, and there is a great demand for industrial computers. The development prospects of the industrial computer market are very broad. At present, the market size of my country's industrial computer is about 20 billion yuan.

　　 6, machine vision 20 billion

　　The emergence of machine vision systems comes from the replacement demand of cumbersome labor. Machine vision automation equipment can perform repetitive tasks tirelessly, and in some dangerous working environments that are not suitable for manual operations or where artificial vision is difficult to meet the requirements, machine vision can replace artificial vision. Machine vision was first used in industrial manufacturing. Through the automatic recognition function of machine vision, many highly repetitive inspections on the assembly line can be completed by machine vision system equipment, which greatly improves the inspection efficiency and accuracy.

With the development of industrial automation, the improvement of my country’s supporting infrastructure, the accumulation of technology and capital, various industries’ demands for industrial automation and intelligence using image and machine vision technology have begun to appear widely. In recent years, enterprises have also made active thinking and bold attempts in the field of image and machine vision technology, and have gradually begun to apply in industrial scenes. With technological innovation and industry demand, machine vision has become a rising industry. With the shift of global manufacturing centers to China, the Chinese machine vision market has become the focus of attention of international manufacturers. It is predicted that the size of China's machine vision market will reach 20 billion yuan by 2015.

　　7, servo system 10 billion

The 　　-generation AC servo system has undergone the transition from analog to digital. Digital control loops have become ubiquitous. Combined with changes in market demand, some new development trends are worthy of our attention. Digital servo brings a good experience to users with its advantages such as high efficiency, direct drive, generalization, intelligence, networking and modularization. Integrating fieldbus and industrial Ethernet technology, and even wireless network technology into servo drives, has become a common practice for European and American manufacturers. Domestic companies are also following up the pace of development, introducing some foreign leading technologies into the country, and Innovative research and development are carried out according to the characteristics of the enterprise.

　　 Many far-sighted domestic manufacturers are increasing R&D efforts to improve the performance of their products, thereby expanding the appeal of their brands, and it will be just around the corner for domestic servo manufacturers to change the pattern of import monopoly. It is predicted that in the next five years, my country’s servo system industry will benefit from the impact of industrial upgrading and will still maintain a growth rate of more than 20%. By 2015, the market size of my country’s servo system industry is expected to exceed 10 billion yuan, of which domestic servo products The market share of the company will reach about 40%.

　　 8, 3D printing 10 billion yuan

　　 The reporter recently learned from the relevant person of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that the current "National Additive Manufacturing Development Promotion Plan (2014-2020)" (draft for comments) has been initially formulated and will be released within this year. The country’s development goals for 3D printing include: initially establishing an additive manufacturing (commonly known as “3D printing”) technological innovation system by 2017, and cultivating 5 to 10 additive materials with an annual output value of more than 500 million yuan and strong R&D and application capabilities Manufacturing enterprises; and forming a number of R&D and industrialization demonstration bases across the country. In terms of policy measures, the state will strengthen organizational leadership, strengthen financial support, and support domestic and overseas listing of 3D printing companies, and the issuance of non-financial corporate bonds and other financing tools.

　　 It is understood that the huge market prospect of 3D printing also attracts many companies. At present, only in the domestic capital market, there are as many as 20 or 30 listed companies involved in 3D printing. According to data from the China 3D Printing Technology Industry Alliance, the global 3D printing market in 2013 was about 4 billion U.S. dollars, and the Chinese market was about 2 billion RMB. There are also optimistic predictions that in the next few years, the 3D printing market in mainland China will grow at least twice as fast every year, and the scale may reach 10 billion yuan.

　　9, 4 billion motion controllers

　　 In recent years, the rapid development of China's machine tool, textile, printing, packaging and electronics industries has strongly driven the demand for motion controllers. From 2006 to 2012, the demand for motion controllers in China increased steadily, from 253,600 sets in 2006 to 754,500 sets in 2012. In 2013, China's motion controller market demand remained relatively stable, with a growth rate of about 19%, and the demand was about 900,000 sets.

　　 According to different platforms, general motion controllers can be divided into three categories: PLC controller, embedded controller and PC-Based control card. In 2013, China's PLC controller market share reached 55.68%, followed by embedded controllers. In the next few years, the demand growth of motion controllers will still be concentrated in the machine tool, printing, packaging, electronics and other industries, while the demand for motion controllers in tobacco machinery, medical equipment and other industries will also grow steadily. It is expected that China's motion control will be in 2016 The demand for controllers will be close to 1.9 million sets, and the market size of general-purpose motion controllers is expected to reach about 4 billion yuan.

　　10, solenoid valve 1.328 billion

Electric tools, rubber metal shock absorbers, diesel generator sets, IGBTDR equipment, microporous aerator, connector, terminal bearing retainer, small wind power water supply equipment, aeration equipment, water purification equipment, solenoid valve, as one of the actuators of the fluid control automation system, because it is cheap , Simple, fast action, easy to install, easy to maintain, has become the first choice for fluid control automation. From the 1950s to the 1980s, it relied on advancement. It was not until the 1990s that domestic solenoid valves occupied a certain market share.

　　 The strong demand in the solenoid valve product market benefits from these aspects. The sustained and stable development of the state-owned economy and the gradual expansion of investment in fixed assets, especially the start of several century projects such as "West-to-East Gas Transmission", "West-to-East Power Transmission", and "South-to-North Water Diversion" projects require a large number of valve products; in addition, my country is Facing the advent of the age of industrialization, the petrochemical industry, power sector, metallurgical sector, chemical industry and urban construction and other major valve users will increase their demand for solenoid valve products. During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the total valve requirements for large and medium-sized coal-fired power generation projects in the power industry are: total valve demand 153,000 tons, average annual demand 30,600 tons; total valve demand 3.96 billion yuan, average annual The demand is 792 million yuan. According to an average annual growth rate of 20%, the total demand for valves during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period is 265,600 tons, the average annual demand is 53,200 tons, the total valve demand is 6.64 billion yuan, and the average annual demand is 13.28 100 million yuan.